Sentences with phrase «from precocious»

The exhibition will present works drawn from across the artist's career - from her precocious early work done while she was still a child, through the surprisingly mature works of her late teens to the increasingly complex art, done before her premature death at age 51 in Paris in 1967.

Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 1999.

This may help to drag the spotlight back towards Tate Britain from its precocious sister on Bankside.

Organized by Sergio Bessa and Yasmin Ramirez, and with nearly a hundred paintings, it brings to New York for the first time a complete view of one of our great urban visionaries, from his precocious juvenilia to the unearthly little pictures from the year before his death from AIDS.

For most pet owners, we have watched our beloved companion grow from precocious youngster into golden - years snuggler.

Outlandish scenes tumble into each other, buoyed by Bukowski's drunken wit and saved from precocious romanticism by his direct, unglamorous honesty.

For some in the right age group, maturing alongside Harry can be life - defining — tracking their own growth by seeing Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, among other young actors on the films, transform from precocious children to charming adults over the course of the series.

The latter is the regrettable category for «Rebel in the Rye,» screenwriter - director Danny Strong's dutiful rundown of the rise of J. D. Salinger from precocious wiseass to storied chronicler of the odd and disaffected — before those qualities in the author, made famous with his anti-hero Holden Caulfield, spelled his retreat from the world.

Have at this tidy, explosive session from a precocious group of newcomers, Catfish and The Bottlemen.

Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian - Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi - occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and

Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian - Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi - occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar.

Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children — queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults — and she's gathered together a notable team of scientists, specialists, philosophers, and writers to find enlightening answers.

Aaron Ramsey — The lad has gone from precocious youngster to a prematurely written - off has - been to a pillar of the Arsenal midfield.

It is other clubs who are the ones that have the young players developing from precocious talent into top class talent, so that is another bragging right we have lost in reality.

Not exact matches

A precocious and self - contained child, from an early age possessed of an outstanding facility for languages, he was dazzling as a scholar at Eton and, at seventeen, a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he went on to gain first - class honors and a prize fellowship.

A precocious Jesus seems exasperated with her failure to understand that he would rather be in his father's house than traveling home from Jerusalem with his parents (Luke 2:49).

She distanced herself from her pious family when, as a precocious teenager, she renounced the church on the grounds that its scriptures were fictitious and its doctrines «most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in their influence.»

From the handful of occasions on which I interacted with Wiesel, I recall the eagerness and warmth with which he endeavored to put the company at ease, as if he were a celebrity forever loyal to the precocious, shy small town boy he once was.

Verlaine was twenty - seven, with a wife and a substantial poetic reputation, when the sixteen - year - old Arthur Rimbaud, the most precocious literary genius ever, wrote to him from the provinces and sent him some poems.

The Reds also have other dangerous customers in the shape of flying winger Michael Antonio and precocious young midfielder Ben Osborn, however, whilst Leeds have a youngster to watch of their own in academy graduate Alex Mowatt, whilst young attacking midfielder Adryan, on loan from Flamengo, is also exciting.

The precocious rookie, mostly recovered from his brief illness, had only 10 points (on 4 of 12 shooting) and five rebounds in Game 2.

The18 - year - old precocious talent has already represented Croatia's U-21 side, although the Gunners look set to face competition from Inter Milan for the wideman.

While the precocious Morrison would certainly represent a major gamble, he could just be the x-factor that either club are looking for in order to give them something more than their rivals and pull away from the bottom three.

It's an important point that they make I think: becoming peer oriented leads to flight from vulnerability, precocious sexual acting - out, aggression, but most important makes it harder for kids to genuinely learn and gorw.

Musser: No, I am being precocious a little bit, but [a] lot of the big brick theories in physics over the past hundreds of years have come from unification, have come from trying to bring together that which had seemed so impossible to bring together.

Biologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, show that precocious entry of the genome into the replication phase leads to molecular collisions occurring on the DNA and induces new mutations.

Back in 1999, scientists at Princeton announced the creation of «Doogie Howser» mice (named after a precocious doctor from another TV series).

So with the mounting stressors over the last few months of being a work - from - home mom with a strong - willed, precocious toddler, starting an intensive year - long Ayurvedic practitioner program, and starting a new business with my husband (more on that later), I was starting to feel my meditation practice calling to me again.

That reliance is less engaging in the movie's interpersonal relationships, which, despite charming performances from Jackman (who manages to overcome his character's numerous flaws) and Goyo (who avoids the trap of becoming a grating «precocious kid»), are as rote as their development is inevitable.

Unbeknownst to Dick, his interrogation tactics attract more than just answers from Earnest, but Dick only has eyes for Earnest's sister, the precocious Daisy Dinero...

Instead it's six — count «em — six precocious black and white birds from Antarctica, and no Morgan Freeman in sight or within earshot.

Wonder does occasionally suffer from kid - movie pitfalls, straining to be cute or mining humor from ridiculously precocious little ones.

You'll Be a Man A decade separates precocious 10 - year - old Leo (Aurelio Cohen) from his new babysitter, Theo (Jules Sagot), in this French coming - of - age drama from director Benoît Cohen, but that doesn't stop the two from becoming best friends.

Goldthwait, on screenwriting and directing duty for the fourth time, ups the ante of precocious C - bomb dropping teenage girls (an alarming number of these characters seem to be popping up, from Hit Girl to Boltie) with Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr) who might not have the best aim with a handgun, but does a mean Jeff Foxworthy impression and has an impressively long list of grievances (and Star Trek trivia) for one so young.

The Nanny Diaries (PG - 13 for profanity) Sacrlett Johansson handles the title role in this romantic comedy, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, about a college grad nanny for a wealthy Manhattan family who finds herself having to put up with the parents» (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti) dysfunction and the demands of their precocious son (Nicholas Art) until hope arrives in a relationship with a well - heeled, handsome Harvard alumnus (Chris Evans) from Park Avenue.

Akeelah Anderson is a precocious 11 - year - old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words.

Both sickeningly precocious tots suffer from EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE syndrome, speaking like a forty - five year old man wrote their dialogue.

As in «The Devil Wears Prada,» she frequently relies on her a kind of put - upon hauteur to extract humor from unprepossessing material, though there is perhaps too much of that playfulness at the expense of the precocious sensuality she displayed so brilliantly in «My Summer of Love»; this Young Victoria remains a notably sexless figure.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (G) Natalie Portman stars in this escapist fantasy as the insecure manager of a magical toy store who inherits the business from her 243 year - old boss (Dustin Hoffman) and then realizes that she has the right stuff to run the place with the help of his accountant (Jason Bateman) and a precocious kid (Zach Mills).

The casting choices are also a liability, with Kunis laboring to look even slightly domestic or even just lived - in as a character with a long history with a one - dimensionally self - centered husband and two precocious kids that look like they were freshly pulled from the Movie - Kid rack at the film studio prop store.

Opposite Rylance is the precocious Ruby Barnhill as Sophie, the orphan who spies him from her window at night and whom he spirits away to Giant Country to keep his secret.

Richard Attenborough is Kris Kringle, the department store Santa, who really believes he is the midnight present giver, while Elizabeth Perkins plays the skeptical Mrs. Walker who is trying to protect her precocious daughter Susan (Mara Wilson) from believing in fairytales like Santa Claus!

Effortlessly charming, stunningly empathetic and an all around a joy to watch, our central quartet make what could be written off as a silly premise - two opposites must now raise the precocious product of their one night stand from high school!

Sympathy surrounds him, yet his family languishes amidst heightened emotions; he quits his job and his teenage son is expelled from school, whilst his precocious daughter innocently takes on domestic duties.

As Ray Boyd, the precocious son of the title character's love interest in «Jerry Maguire,» he stole more hearts from the audience then star Tom Cruise.

On the child - actor scale that runs from «irritatingly precocious stage - school kid» to «Dakota Fanning,» Jacob Tremblay is one of the few who falls into an extra special category: the «where - on - Earth - did - they - find - this - kid - and - how - does - he - give - a-performance-like-this» category.

You'll see that in this exclusive clip from director Luca Guadagnino's beautiful Sundance hit, which shows the first stirrings of a connection that's maybe more than platonic between precocious teen Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the grad student Adonis spending the summer at Elio's family's summer home in northern Italy.

It captures with tenderness and wit the exquisite ache of growing up as Mulligan evolves into the architect of her own destiny only after incurring the scars, pain, and brutal disappointment that separate the genuinely wise from the merely precocious.

By the time he picks up his adorable and precocious niece from school and drives her around while she talks about the trouble she's having making a short film for her class under Iran's expansive media guidelines, the intent is clear.